There Once Was a Cop

1972

1h 35m

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Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving husband with child - something that is not so easy for a confirmed single like Campana. Unfortunately American killers chase behind the Nice mafia clan too, in order to get control of French drug trades to USA.

Writers

Georges Lautner(screenplay by)
Francis Veber(screenplay by)
Richard Caron(novel by)
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Michael Lonsdale
Commissioner Lucas
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Michel Constantin
Commissioner Campana alias Louis Lopez
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Mireille Darc
Christine alias Françoise
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Robert Dalban
Commissioner Chauvet, Superintendent in Nice
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Venantino Venantini
Felice, killer
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Hervé Hillien
Bertrand, Christine's son
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Henri Guybet
PJ inspector
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Robert Castel
Rodriguez, Manoni's man
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Giuliano Esperanti
Second killer
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Charles Southwood
Narcotic Bureau agent
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Dado Crostarosa
One of the two young Portuguese
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Jean Luisi
Second taxi driver
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Fransined
First taxi driver
Phyllis Major
Marianne Halifax
Ghislain Oyac
Manoni's secretary

Writers

Georges Lautner(screenplay by)
Francis Veber(screenplay by)
Richard Caron(novel by)

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Release date

February 11, 1972 (United States)

Country of origin

France

Languages

French
Italian

Production companies

Gaumont International
Rizzoli Film

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